On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:42:19PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On Aug 30/06, Tom Rhodes asks the reasonable question: > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:28:34 +0400 > >Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:41:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > > >> > I do think those comments and examples are useful, but it might be > > > > better to move those lines into separate files. > > > > > > I think they should be moved to /usr/share/examples/etc/ (like > >> make.conf), with files in /etc/ representing good (short) defaults > > > with a minimum of comments and probably references to examples. > > > >Question is, what files will be moved? All configuration files > >or just "some" ? > > I would not move "all" of them. I think the proper rule would be > "Split up the ones which constantly annoy me when they change". > Obviously that's a rather subjective criteria...
> These are files which have "too many" helpful comments or examples
> in them, and which I have to modify on every single machine I ever
> bring up. So *every* time one of these changes, I have to stop and
> stare at the diff in the mergemaster step, and 99% of the time the
> change is just to fix or improve some comment. And in many cases,
> the change is to some line that I remove in my custom copy. Now
> all of those changes seem to be good changes, but they are still
> an annoyance when it comes to merging in my local changes.
The "correct" way to deal with that is via MM_PRE_COMPARE_SCRIPT in
mergemaster.rc.
Ceri
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